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Hi Barb, we wish you good luck and the best with your new blog. You have some great ideas and topics to spread about the Jewish community. I did come across a Woman’s Jewish website that could help you get your word around the globe.

Hello! I am working with Jewish Author Yael Levy who releases her YA Novel Brooklyn Love this month. I’d love to talk to you about joining her Virtual Book Tour for a review, guest post or interview. Might you be able to contact me?

You’re doing a great job with the blog – keep up the good work! We’d love to get an email or mailing address from you so that we can notify you of our upcoming releases so you can review them if you’re interested.

Hi there
I am a book pr professional working from the UK. I would be really grateful if I could speak to you about an important new memoir about the Lithuanian Holocaust. Could you let me know where to send a review copy?
Many thanks
Tabitha

Barbara, your blog always has the most insightful interviews, with the best questions! My book, The Color of Light, is being published by Stony Creek Press on October 31st. The blog tour will go throughout November. I would be honored if you joined the tour. Could you email me an address where I could send you a review copy?

Jewish poet Charles Bane, Jr. has been nominated to the post of Poet Laureate of the state of Florida.The post is currently vacant, following the recent death of Edmund Skellings. If appointed by Governor Rick Scott, Bane would be the first Jew to hold the post in the state’s history.
Bane’s work has been described by the Huffington Post as “not only standing on the shoulders of giants, but shrinking them.” He is the author of The Chapbook ( Curbside Splendor 2011) and Love Poems ( Kelsay Books 2014). His poems have won the praise of Past poet Laureate Richard Wilbur, and 1981 winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry Roald Hoffmann, himself a poet.
Bane is active in the South Florida Jewish community: he was Founder and Chairman of the Palm Beach Advisory Board of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and Co-Founder of Conner’s Nursery, a residential treatment center for infants with AIDS. He has said his happiest day was when the center closed, due to advances in medical research and treatment.
Bane’s poems have been published in literary journals in the U.S. and internationally, from the Phillipines to the UK. He is at work on a third collection, “The Ends Of The Earth”, slated for completion in 2015.

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